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Another week, another round of great gaming journalism by women across the internet! Commentary Tina Amini does a deep dive on why it’s so hard to create a video game. Holly Green explains the 5 most significant changes coming…

I still remember the first time I played Hitman GO (iOS, Android & PS4). I’d seen it on Apple’s year-end list of best games of 2014 and wondered what could possibly be so special about it. The App Store…

Women on Video Games is a weekly round-up of interesting gaming commentary by women across the web. This week: commentary on sex in video games, the Tomb Raider franchise, and the role of imagination, plus reviews of Gears of…

Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin in its native Japan) fans have no shortage of media to enjoy through 2016 and to look forward to next year. The manga has not yet wrapped up, the anime series will reportedly…

Games have always been subject to iteration, whether it’s in the form of a humble update, a long-awaited sequel, or a lavish franchise. But now, rather than representing a finished product even temporarily, games are likely to be immediately…

Essen is one of the two largest conventions in the world for games and toys, and it takes place in Essen, Germany over four days. It’s also where hundreds of board games make their debut. The list of all of the games coming out…

One of our goals at remeshed is to bring more attention to women’s opinions about video games, regardless of whether they’re posted here on elsewhere on the web. So every week, I spend a lot of time trawling Twitter and…

I’m not a very sciencey person. I fumbled my way through Physics for Poets and Biology as an undergraduate to complete requirements, but apart from occasionally dropping in on my local astronomy club meetings, science doesn’t play much of…

Travel through the ’80s as Daria chronicles the early history of the JRPG genre. In this video, she identifies 15 important games of the 1980s that helped defined today’s well-established mechanics, and directly contributed to the immense popularity of the roleplaying…

This episode of Feminist Frequency explores how female villains in games very often function to demonize femaleness itself, drawing on patterns of female representation that have roots in creatures from myth and folklore which reinforced misogynistic attitudes about women…

With the fate of our ship in our hands, our eyes were glued to the screen. As the asteroid careened towards us, I frantically yelled, “Everybody shake!” This is Spaceteam, a “cooperative shouting game” created by Henry Smith of…

As someone who is not naturally great at FPS games, I wasn’t sure what to make of Overwatch. First, as an AAA release, its price point is pretty steep. Added to the game expense is the PlayStation Plus subscription…

When it comes to female video game protagonists, there is one name that is conspicuously missing from any lists I have ever seen, despite having starred in over 45 games for PC, console and handhelds since 1984. While her…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a profession that requires equipping a firearm must be represented in video games as incredibly violent. However little understood the profession may be by game designers, this truth is so well fixed…

I’ve been playing a lot of Overwatch. That’s not a shocker: not only is it a ridiculously fun game, it also feels like the team-based FPS I couldn’t have dreamed would happen five years ago. Not only does it…

How often do you feel disorientated by a video game? For most people it’s uncommon, and either intentional on the part of the developer or, conversely, an indication of design choices that aren’t quite working. For me, it’s a…